Place value of each digit
Recognise the place value of each digit in a four-digit number (thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones)
Lesson
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Explain each digit's value, including a zero placeholder.
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Illustrative Mathematics · Practice link — not the full lesson
Ordering 4-digit numbers
Before you open · source notes
Four-digit numbers are ordered using place-value comparisons. Use it for reading place value, not every rounding skill.
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Before you openAsk which of two 4-digit numbers is greater and name the place that decided it.
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Illustrative Mathematics. “Ordering 4-digit numbers.” Licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. External task; Gakuva does not copy, host, embed, or redistribute it.
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Check understanding
- State the value of each digit in a four-digit number (e.g. in 7,345 the 7 represents 7 thousands)
- Partition a four-digit number into thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones
- Compose a four-digit number from given place-value parts (e.g. 3000 + 400 + 50 + 2 = 3,452)
“If your child sees the number 5,347, can they tell you the value of each digit — that the 5 means 5,000, the 3 means 300, the 4 means 40, and the 7 means 7?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Domain
- Number Representation & Place Value
- Age range
- Ages 8–10
Standards